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Although compared to the monster rampages in the past few years, with casualties in the three or four digits, eight people are nothing in terms of numbers.
However, such attacks that appear out of nowhere and may occur anywhere, and we don't even know who or what the perpetrators are, will certainly cause panic once they spread in society.
"But the blockade has reached its limit now, and vampire legends are spreading all over Tokyo." Kotaro said on the other end of the phone.
"Vampire..." Ling thought about it and it seemed that she had heard similar rumors at school.
I thought it was just a weird rumor, but it turns out it really happened.
"Have you confirmed it's a monster?"
"No, there are no traces at the scene. The patrol opened fire at the Rice Flower Cemetery early this morning, but even so, they were still killed, and nothing was left at the scene."
The call to Reiya was from Kotaro who wanted to ask if Gaia knew anything.
Ling didn't know that she was not a detective and couldn't solve cases.
But since this happened, she still went to the Rice Flower Cemetery after school.
Beika Town is not far from Tomoeda Town and can be reached on foot.
"Tomoyo, are you coming too?"
"Of course, maybe I can take a picture of Ling showing off her skills!" Tomoyo, who was going home from school with her schoolbag, turned on her mobile phone to record the video, taking pictures here and there from time to time, very excited.
"But, I'm going to a cemetery, and you can't take videos or photos in a cemetery."
It is not explicitly prohibited, but it is a folk custom. The elderly say that taking photos at a cemetery will reveal unclean things. Putting aside superstition, this is also a respect for the dead, and everyone will abide by it.
Chishi also thought of it. Yes, this time we were going to the cemetery and we were not allowed to take photos or videos. She was not afraid of the cemetery, but she was a little disappointed.
"So Chise, let's make an appointment next time. Let's go see the cherry blossoms together this weekend."
The early cherry blossoms in February have already bloomed.
Zhi Shi knew Ling didn't really want her to follow, so she stopped forcing her. She was always considerate.
After dissuading Chiyo from going with her, Ling watched the girl leave and walked for a while. The cemetery was already in sight, and then she found that she was still not alone.
"Katsuragi-san, are you following me?"
Katsuragi, who was walking behind Lingya and had been playing games on his phone with his head down, raised his head when he heard this.
"Follow you? This is my way home."
"Katsuraki lives in the cemetery?"
"Ah? What nonsense are you talking about? I live in that neighborhood."
In the direction that Katsuragi Keima pointed, not far behind the cemetery, there was indeed a residential area with a few deserted houses.
"You're actually next to a cemetery... aren't you scared, Katsuragi-san?"
"What are you afraid of? Dead people won't hurt anyone. They are much safer than living people."
Katsuragi Keima is an atheist. There are monsters and aliens in this world, but gods and ghosts definitely do not exist. Unless they appear in front of him and let him see them.
To be honest, even though Beika-cho is in Tokyo, the security here is really not that good.
The dead will not disturb him when he is playing games. Living in Beika Town, maybe the cemetery is the most reassuring place.
"So, can you make a Galgame?" Katsuragi held up his glasses with one hand, causing the mirror surface to reflect light.
"You are following me on purpose, right?"
Haha, I followed you all the way just to say this. You are really persistent for the game.
But she really didn't remember any Galgame, whether it was "Clannad" or "White Album".
I've watched a few episodes of the former, but I've long forgotten the plot, except for a girl who gave away starfish everywhere. I've never come across the latter, I just heard of its name online.
White scholar.
If she can be called a "scientist", the plot must be excellent, but it's a pity that she knows nothing about it.
None of the scriptwriters signed by Oshima Entertainment are particularly famous.
Without Key Club and a big devil like Maeda Jun, Ling doesn't think she can make any good Galgame.
Ling also doesn't remember when Key Club was founded, and doesn't know if there is a Maeda Jun in this world. Even if there is, he is probably a kindergarten or elementary school student.
Currently, all the scriptwriters of Oshima Entertainment are pure newcomers like Nasu Kinoko. In addition, she is not sure whether Akira Toriyama, who is currently working on "Arale", can write a good Galgame script.
We arrived at the cemetery and it was quiet.
This is the end of life.
That is not accurate either. The moment a person closes his eyes and dies, he reaches the end, either in a hospital or at home. The so-called posthumous honors after that have nothing to do with the deceased himself.
Whether the body is left exposed in the wilderness or buried in a cemetery for annual memorial services, it all depends on the living to express their grief.
It makes no difference to the dead, they have already embarked on a new journey.
Therefore, there were no people in the cemetery, nor any so-called souls. Apart from the tombstones, it was no different from the wilderness.
"Are you going to visit the graves?" Gui Mu asked doubtfully.
He admitted that he had followed Lingye on purpose, but that was also because this was indeed his way home.
I was wondering why Oshima was walking here, but I didn't expect her to go straight into the cemetery.
"I have something to do, so don't come with me."
The cordon in front of the cemetery remains, but without the officers guarding it, the search is largely over.
Ling also pulled up the warning tape and crawled in from underneath.
"Hey, isn't this a bad idea? You'll get scolded by the adults."
Katsuragi said this and went in as well.
It was dusk, the time of the devil. Even though Gui Mu was an atheist, he still felt a chill in his heart when he entered the cemetery at this time.
The bright red sunset dyed the tombstones red.
At the junction of day and night, the shadow of the stone tablet is very long, as if extending to another world.
The wind blew, and the red spider lilies swayed in front of the tomb. They were bright, and had a different smell, like soil, and like herbs.
Katsuragi had heard about the Oshima family, and her parents had passed away. But this was a poor cemetery, and a big conglomerate like Oshima shouldn't be buried in such a cemetery.
Besides, who would visit graves at dusk?
"Go back, Oshima. This isn't a good time to visit graves."
Ling was also a little surprised when she heard this.
"Are you concerned about me?"
They had hardly spoken before.
Although they are students of the same school, apart from Light Yagami who always gets full marks in every exam, Katsuragi and Rei always rank second and third in grade exams.
Apart from the top three, the rankings of the rest have widened considerably. The rankings of the students are no longer fixed and are often rotated.
Although they were the second and third, we were in different classes so we didn't communicate much.
"Huh? Care? You're not the heroine of Galgame, why should I care about real women?"
Ling felt that this was a bit rude, but she didn't feel offended.
She is not a heroine, a so-called Galgame, and she has not considered love for the time being.
There is no peace on earth yet, and that was her original intention for coming to this world.
There were sounds of footsteps on the sand, but the sound was covered by the evening breeze. Ling heard it, but Guimu did not.
So when Kotaro walked up to them, the absent-minded Katsuragi was startled.
It was really scary when a figure suddenly appeared in the cemetery at dusk.
"You're here, Lingye, who is this?"
"Katsuraki Keima, a classmate from the same school." Ling also briefly introduced, "He came here on his own."
"Flower protector?" Kotaro teased.
Although he felt that there was no need to protect this "flower" at all, Gaia was unable to defeat the opponent, and even Ultra Father might not be of any use.
Katsuragi was a little surprised when he noticed the ZAT uniform on Kotaro. But it was just a surprise, and it had nothing to do with him.
If this world itself is a game, then the designer is terrible, there is no playability and it is boring. So when Katsuragi first came into contact with a mobile phone and the games represented by the icons, the door to a new world opened.
It is simply God’s creation, a world that only God knows.
That's where he should be.
"Katsuragi, I will find a way to find someone to make the Galgame you mentioned. But now you should go home."
Katsuragi could tell that it was obviously about expelling irrelevant people, but the combination of the cemetery and the ZAT members surprised him, and he felt that something extraordinary was going to happen.
What does this have to do with Oshima, who is also in the sixth grade of elementary school?
Just as he was wondering, a figure flickered in Guimu's peripheral vision. Is there someone else?
"Over there, someone is picking flowers." Guimu said.
"Pick flowers?"
Kotaro, somewhat touched by the word 'flower', turned his head, but there was no one in his sight.
"Where? Did you really see it?"
"You're not mistaken. There was indeed a person in that rose bush over there."
The direction that Katsuragi pointed to was exactly the flower bush that Araki had asked Kitajima about before.
It is said to be a rose, but it is not. It looks very much like a rose family, but it is hard to tell whether it is a rose, a rose or a rose. Anyway, it is that kind of flower.
"Did you see it?" Kotaro asked Lingye.
Ling also nodded, "There is someone... I think it's a person."
Kotaro felt a little scared when he heard the words "It should be a human", especially in this cemetery where night was about to fall, but this was a natural reaction as a human being. As Taro's human body, he was certainly not afraid of such a thing.
"I gonna go see."
Kotaro pulls out the ZAT gun.